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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

SOLVED! #11 - Culture War Distractions While the Oligarchs Rob You Blind

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Marx, Political, Feminism, Jacobin, Left, Hightower, Politics, Counterspin, News, News Commentary, Maddow, Hartmann, Democracynow, Antiracism, Marxism, Socialism, Capitalism, Ezra, Liberal, Intercepted, Hayes, Progressive, Intercept, Intersectionality, Wolff

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Air Date: 6-8-25

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Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:

  • The right’s attack on free speech and academic freedom
  • Trumponomics, men, and tradwives
  • The lessons to learn about culture wars from the fight for gay marriage
  • How the internet and Trump force us to live in and re-litigate the past
  • How the left can avoid Trump’s culture war traps

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REFERENCES:

Trump’s Attack on Harvard Marks a New Phase in the Culture War - New York Magazine

There’s No Trumponomics Without the Tradwife - New York Magazine

To Stop Losing the Culture Wars, Learn From Gay Marriage - Jacobin

I Can’t Believe We’re Still Arguing About This - The New York Times

Democrats Can Avoid Trump’s Culture-War Traps - Jacobin

 

SOLVED! SONG! “Rob You Blind” - Concepts: Human Intelligence. Song: Artificial Intelligence. Based on SOLVED! Ep. #11: “Culture War Distractions While the Oligarchs Rob You Blind” (June 8, 2025)

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast, although today we're sharing a sample of this week's episode of our other show, solved.

0:11.9

Best of Left members get solved early, ad-free, and complete with a members-only backstage segment all via podcast.

0:19.7

But we're also putting the show out on the

0:21.8

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0:26.4

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0:31.0

to the Best of Left YouTube channel and catching every episode of Solved there. And now here's a few

0:36.9

minutes for free to wet your appetite, but just like Best of

0:40.0

Left, the Real Benefits kick in when you hear the whole show, which is greater than the

0:44.7

sum of its parts.

0:46.5

Today, we are tackling culture wars, and we're focusing on how they are, you know, it's

0:54.0

sort of like, it's sort of like race.

0:55.6

It's like total bullshit, effectively non-existent, but at the same time, deeply, deeply

1:02.7

true and important and has major effects on society.

1:07.4

I feel like culture wars are sort of similar in general. And so we are going to

1:13.1

point out that they're bullshit and demonstrate and educate on how to pivot away from them

1:19.6

to progressive ideas that really matter in a way that is not pure distraction and nonsense

1:27.3

for the sake of, you know,

1:29.2

distracting people away from being robbed blind by the oligarchs.

1:33.5

Am I missing anything or is that pretty much everyone's interpretation of what we're doing today?

1:38.4

I thought that was a good summary.

1:39.9

Oh, good.

1:40.7

I ad-libbed that because I forgot to write an intro this time.

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